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I'm Julie, The WordNerdGirl. I love to write. I've been writing professionally for more than 20 years and career-wise, I've done almost every type of writing or editing you can think of at least once. Currently, I work freelance while also barely-adequately parenting four kids who range in age from "When are you going to use the potty?" to "You kiss your mother with that mouth?"
My hope for this blog is to both share my love of the written word with others, while also learning more along the way.

All the Latin I've learned in life
I learned from Google TranslatePhoto: Julie Bartha-Vasquez

Notes on the Poem:

The writing prompt today was to use foreign language phrases in your poem. To be honest, the prompt

itself didn't really light a spark under me today. I had other ideas I was chewing. But the day got away from me with work and kids and purple glitter on the carpet. But then a friend's blog post about the awesomeness of knowing Latin got me thinking about how I wished I'd had the chance to take a basic Latin class at some point in life. So now, late at night, I'm falling back on my old standbys -- Google, Wikipedia and a basic rhyme scheme -- to throw together something fun and silly.

Tomorrow is the last NaPoWriMo Day. But I am also thinking about ways of keeping the creative mojo going. I honestly didn't expect that 1)- I'd be able to keep up with this for the whole month, 2)- that I would want to do this every day for a month and that 3)- other people would be wanting to do it with me. Awesome experience all around. It's been fun... hoping we can keep it going. -- WNG